All night, since the end of that skirmish, Chen Xuanli did not dare to sacrifice his soldiers and horses to find out the details of the other party, even if he heard the voices of shouting from outside from time to time, claiming to be reinforcements, he also ordered no one to go out without permission, and wait for the sun to rise. But when he saw the black battle flag in the sky at dawn, he understood that the clamor that had been kept all night last night was actually true. Because on the battle flag of the exhibition, there are five bright and dazzling big characters of the Anbei Forward Battalion!

It wasn't Shuofang's reinforcements that came, but the soldiers and horses under Du Shiyi's command!

Chen Xuanli didn't have time to think too much, so he immediately ordered someone to investigate. As soon as he sent a scout, a confidant soldier rushed over quickly, and before he even had time to salute, he walked to his side and said quickly in a very low voice: "General, there were countless soldiers who escaped last night, and early in the morning, the brigade commanders roughly counted the number of people according to the general's previous military order, and the rest was only about 13,000 people. ”

Such a number sounds like a lot, but Chen Xuanli knows in his heart that the left and right Longwu Army and the left and right Yu Linwei, the four armies of the North Gate, have more than 40,000 rated soldiers at the peak of Kaiyuan, and there are gradually vacancies during the Tianbao years, but there are also more than 30,000 people, this time because of the haste of the matter, he hurriedly reorganized the army, and brought out more than 20,000 people, after the escape of the first two days, there should be nearly 20,000 people, but last night, there were so many people who were deserters! Was it because the rebels clamoured to kill Yang Yuyao, heard that reinforcements were coming, and were afraid that the Son of Heaven would add to the crime, or because they mistakenly thought that the rebels were coming, so they became deserters?

No matter which possibility it is, now the Son of Heaven Forbidden Army led by himself has no morale, and it is a fact that he is unprecedentedly weak. Moreover, after all, the matter of forcing Yang Yuyao to kill has become a big pimple in the heart of the Son of Heaven, and now that there are reinforcements, Anzhi Li Longji will not blame him and his generals because of the anger in his belly? But how could he really want to force the king with his ministers, he just wanted to preserve the last bit of vitality of the four armies of the North Gate!

Chen Xuanli waited for a long time in anxiety, and the messenger who went to inquire finally turned around. When he learned that it was Du Sui, who had accompanied Du Shiyi to Chang'an to meet him, and he was a little relieved, secretly thinking that Du Shiyi and Yang Guozhong were at odds. However, he suddenly remembered that Du Shiyi and the Yang family were not all without origin, and the dead concubine Yang Yuyao, who was first the princess of Shou and then the sister of the Taizhen lady, also learned the pipa under Du Shiyi!

"General, what should I do?"

"How many people are in the forward battalion of Du Sui?"

"At least one or two thousand."

It was these 2,000 people last night who played nearly 20,000 of the North Gate Fourth Army?

Chen Xuanli clenched his teeth and asked again: "Can he say, what is the whereabouts of Du Dashuai and Shuo Fang Guo Dashuai?" ”

"He just mentioned that Du Dashuai and Guo Dashuai joined forces and were hurrying to Chang'an to help and meet the rebels."

Du Shiyi actually went south from Shuofang with Guo Ziyi? In this way, although Yang Guozhong's previous military orders sent to Shuofang one after another put aside their pace of help, they were finally dispatched over there, which is really lucky!

If it was in the past, Chen Xuanli would definitely feel that Du Shiyi and Guo Ziyi were suspicious, but when he thought of the erosive battle situation ahead, when he thought of Chang'an, which is now probably more auspicious, and when he thought of the Son of Heaven and Yang Guozhong, who missed the fighter, he felt that those two marshals were really doing the right thing. At this moment, he no longer had the slightest doubt in his heart, and after ordering one of his most trusted lieutenants to take over Ma Weiyi's defense, he only took a dozen personal guards to see Du Sui in person.

As soon as the two sides looked at each other, Chen Xuanli certainly couldn't help but look at Azler, who was in his early thirties, and Azler was also investigating the famous Longwu general, the only remaining Tang Yuan hero. Although the mention of martial arts meritorious heroes has existed since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the real awarding of meritorious heroes began in the Kaiyuan period of Li Longji, and the people who were awarded the honor of meritorious heroes of Tang and Yuan were all generals of the 10,000-horse sequence, adding up to only a dozen people. Now, nearly forty years have passed, and except for Chen Xuanli, everyone else is gone.

As a Turk, Azler learned the etiquette of scripture and history from Du Shiyi, so he was naturally not rude to Chen Xuanli, a general who had been cautious from beginning to end, had never been on the battlefield, and had always been in charge of the forbidden army, but when he thought of the small encounter last night, he didn't have much respect in his heart.

It is said that the four armies of the North Gate are all carefully selected warriors who are good at riding and archery martial arts, and now it seems that they are just in vain!

If Chen Xuanli knew that Azler was secretly slandering the name of the North Gate Forbidden Army, he would definitely be furious. Can he be blamed for this? Left and right Yu Linwei has never been in his charge! For him, what is more important now is obviously to further verify the movements of Shuofang's troops and horses from Azler's mouth. Knowing that Du Shiyi's Anbei soldiers and horses were all equipped with two horses, one horse carrying people, and the other horse carrying drinking water supplies rushed to Shuofang Lingzhou, but because there was no order, he could not dispatch, and then learned that the war in Heluo was tight, Du Shiyi said that Guo Ziyi would move Guo Ziyi, and immediately sent troops south to Gyeonggi, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and immediately said: "In this way, I will take General Du to meet the saint." ”

"No need." Azler was not interested in saying some respectful words in front of the Son of Heaven, and was even more impatient to bow down and bow, so he immediately refused without hesitation.

Seeing that Chen Xuanli's face changed slightly, he looked around at Chen Xuanli's entourage, and when he saw that the generals were all tired and discouraged, he said lightly: "I was just ordered to be a striker, and I didn't dare to alarm Your Majesty!" And last night I had been shouted for reinforcements, but I was still attacked by the forbidden army, and there were many wounded in the army, and I had to try to pacify them. Since I have met General Chen and informed the reinforcements, I have finished the matter. Now that Chang'an City is in danger, I need to go to the rescue immediately! Please also ask General Chen to relax, Shuofang reinforcements will arrive at any time, and the rebels will also have their own to resist, so you don't have to worry about the safety of the saint! ”

Only then did Chen Xuanli understand that Azler didn't plan to see Li Longji just like that, but wanted to lead the army directly to Chang'an to relieve the siege! He opened his mouth to say that protecting the Son of Heaven was the top priority, but thinking of the scene of Yang Yuyao killing himself last night, he himself was also pressed, and he suddenly choked again. The next moment, he saw Azler arching his hand to him, and then issued a military order in front of him, and after a while, he saw that this army of soldiers and horses acted in an orderly manner.

It wasn't until he found that such a group of soldiers and horses had been reorganized, as if it was about to be pulled out at any time, that Chen Xuanli suddenly realized that even if Azler and the others refused to stay to protect the Son of Heaven, there was still one of the most important problems that had not been solved, that is, the urgent shortage of rations! For a while, he couldn't care about his face as a general of Longwu, and rushed forward and said to Azler, who was about to get on the horse: "General Du is going to rescue Chang'an, he is loyal and brave, I admire it." It's just that we were in too much of a hurry when we waited for the saints to leave Chang'an, so that the supplies were ......."

Supply? Judging by the situation, Li Longji must have ordered too hastily, and he was not allowed to leak the news, so that Chen Xuanli and the others did not bring enough food and straw at all!

Azler sneered in his heart, then deliberately hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "I know General Chen's difficulties. As a striker, I don't have much rations, so I'll give you half of the army! ”

Chen Xuanli didn't expect that Azler clearly didn't have much respect for the Son of Heaven, and he wanted to rush to the aid of Chang'an when he left here, but he was willing to share rations with the forbidden army, and he was overjoyed. But when Azler ordered his generals to distribute the rations, he heard countless complaints from the generals of the forward battalion. The complaint was not directed at him, but at Li Longji. What left thousands of people in the capital to flee for their lives, what did not care about the lives of the warriors of the forbidden army, and what made stupid moves so that the front lost the city and lost the ground...... All in all, food is given, but the words that were rebellious and did not dare to export in the past were poured out unscrupulously at this time, which made Chen Xuanli change color.

But how can he have the face to accuse others at this time? What's worse is that if there is no food, I am afraid that the forbidden army will all escape!

With Azler's more than 2,000 people all pulling out, Chen Xuanli ordered people to move the grain bags back, and the cheers in the forbidden army rose one after another. Although the rations left by Azler were only 2,000 for a day, no matter what, they could always make the forbidden army a little fed, and who could not be happy when they heard that the reinforcements from Shuofang and Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate were not far away, as long as they survived this little time, and did not have to worry about the rebels chasing after them? Even the wounded in the melee last night did not complain much, and the people who had been captured before had been released.

However, the dissatisfaction of the Anbei Forward Battalion against the Son of Heaven spread almost like the speed of light among the forbidden army!

Li Longji had already prepared, when the foreign reinforcement lord came to see him, how to praise, how to show kindness, how to entrap, but he never expected that Azler would pass through the horse post without entering, and directly lead the troops to relieve the siege of Chang'an! As the Son of Heaven, he has been praised all the way, and he has been surrounded by sycophants, he was just forced to the palace last night, and now he is despised by others, and the resentment in his heart has reached the extreme! He still needs to be patient, but when Wei Jiansu was entrusted by Chen Xuanli to deliver lunch, he still couldn't help but sneer.

"Wouldn't it be better for me to starve to death?"

When Wei Jiansu first came, he also saw the tragic situation of Yang Guozhong being tied to the flagpole. Although people are still alive, the generals are just because they have something to eat for the time being, and their resentment in their hearts has decreased slightly, and they are not really willing to let Yang Guozhong go. Therefore, seeing that the Son of Heaven was clearly in a bad mood, he had to put down the meal in his hand and stepped forward to whisper to persuade him to calm his anger. It was easy for him to persuade the Son of Heaven to eat for a while, and suddenly there was a shouting outside.

"It's water, it's water!"

Li Longji stood up suddenly, with an irrepressible panic on his face. The anger of being persecuted and despised just now vanished, replaced by deep fear. Yes, now that the civil and military generals are detached from themselves, and the clan is all here, even if Li Heng is dead, as long as the people below have the heart, support one person from among the kings, and force themselves to abdicate, is it not a simple matter? And does this fire want to burn himself and Wei Jiansu here?

He grabbed Wei Jiansu's hand, and said in a trembling voice: "Wei Qing save me!" ”